Jack Wampler

jack.wampler [at] colorado.edu

Education

Publications

• Oscur0: One-Shot Circumvention without Registration

  Mingye Chen, Jack Wampler, Abdulrahman Alaraj, Gaukas Wang, Eric Wustrow. Free and Open Communications on the Internet 2024 (FOCI24)

• Just add WATER: WebAssembly-based Circumvention Transports

  Erik Chi, Gaukas Wang, J Alex Halderman, Eric Wustrow, Jack Wampler. Free and Open Communications on the Internet 2024 (FOCI24)

• Doomed to Repeat with IPv6? Characterization of NAT-centric Security in SOHO Routers

  Karl Olson, Jack Wampler, Nolen Scaife. ACM Computing Surveys, 2023

• NATting Else Matters: Evaluating IPv6 Access Control Policies in Residential Networks

  Karl Olson, Jack Wampler, Fan Shen, Nolen Scaife. International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement 2021 (PAM21)

• Running Refraction Networking for Real

  Benjamin VanderSloot, Sergey Frolov, Jack Wampler, Sze Chuen Tan, Irv Simpson, Michalis Kallitsis, J. Alex Halderman, Nikita Borisov, and Eric Wustrow. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies | Volume 2020: Issue 4

• Detecting Probe-resistant Proxies

  Sergey Frolov, Jack Wampler, Eric Wustrow. NDSS 2020

• Conjure: Summoning Proxies from Unused Address Space

  Sergey Frolov, Jack Wampler, Sze Chuen Tan, J. Alex Halderman, Nikita Borisov, Eric Wustrow. ACM CCS 2019

• ExSpectre: Hiding Malware in Speculative Execution

  Jack Wampler, Ian Martiny, Eric Wustrow. NDSS 2019

• Breaking the Trust Dependence on Third Party Processes for Reconfigurable Secure Hardware

  Aimee Coughlin, Greg Cusack, Jack Wampler, Eric Keller, Eric Wustrow. FPGA 2019 Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SIGDA

Research Projects & Software

• Pluggable Transports in Rust (PTRS)

  • PTRS - Library w/ traits and tools for pluggable transports implementation and integration.

  • Lyrebird - Implementation of the Lyrebird Tor bridge & a forward proxy using PTRS.

  • Obfs4 - An implementation of obfs4 pluggable transport library in pure rust.

  • Obfs4 Protocol Explainer Site

• WebAssembly Transport Executables & Runtime (WATER)

  • WATER (golang)

  • WATER Transport Module Library (golang)

  • WATER (Rust)

  • WATER Transport Module Library (Rust)

  • Paper - Just add WATER: WebAssembly-based Circumvention Transports - FOCI 24 short-paper

• Conjure: Refraction Networking

  • Client Library

  • Server Library

  • Papers:

    • Conjure: Summoning Proxies from Unused Address Space - ACM CCS 2019

    • Running Refraction Networking for Real - PETS 2020

    • Thesis: Crossing the Gap: Reflections on Operationalizing Systems and Exploits

• ExSpectre: Speculative Execution

  • ExSpectre Speculative execution demo

  • SpASM Speculative Assembly (SpASM) is a 6-bit DSL used for a custom emulator as a part of the ExSpectre project.

  • Paper - ExSpectre: Hiding Malware in Speculative Execution - NDSS 2019

Open-Source Contributions

• Rust Elligator2 Implementation

Previous Employment

• Graduate Research Intern R&D, Cloudflare

  Remote. Summer 2020

• Intern R&D - Undergraduate, Sandia National Laboratories

  Livermore, CA. Summer 2016, Summer 2017

• Lead Technician, UC San Diego Academic Computing & Media Support (ACMS)

  La Jolla, CA. 2015 - 2017

• Intern R&D - Undergraduate, Sandia National Laboratories

  Albuquerque, NM. 2015 - 2016